[Openais] Re: 2.6.9 kernel oops with openais

Steven Dake sdake at mvista.com
Fri Oct 29 16:44:29 PDT 2004


The use case is this (on 2.6.9):

task starts as uid 0
task calls mlockall
task allocates several mb of ram
task drops root privs to non prived uid
further memory allocations fail

Thanks
-steve

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:39, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Steven Dake (sdake at mvista.com) wrote:
> > well probably all related..  The best way around the memset problem is
> > to comment out the code that does the mlockall (the function is
> > aisexec_mlockall().  This then allows all memory allocations to
> > succeed.  I think there must be some new limit with mlockall in the
> > 2.6.9 kernel series or later.
> 
> What's the mlock issue?  I changed that code about 2.6.9-rc4.
> 
> thanks,
> -chris




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